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Society & Culture News tagged with native Americans

No Cause to Fear
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, culture, society, rights, safety, environment, ethics, government, health )

Kat
- 5 hours ago - indiancountrytoday.com
Because I have served with the title "Expert Witness for History" five times on behalf of four tribes of Sioux before the federal courts, from experience I know that non-Indians' legal representatives use scare tactics to arouse public opinion as well...
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Matherly Receives Humanitarian Hero Award
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, culture, society, ethics, news, GoodNews, safety )

Kat
- 5 hours ago - indiancountrytoday.com
SPOKANE, Wash. - Nearly 600 people crowded the ballroom at the Kalispel Tribe's Northern Quest Resort and Casino to honor the 2009 Hometown Heroes at a luncheon, an annual event of the Inland Northwest Chapter of the American Red Cross. Local heroes ...
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Whopper Commercial Mocks Natives
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, Burger King, Prejudice, culture, society, ethics )

Kat
- 5 hours ago - bluecorncomics.com
At first glance Burger King's "Whopper Virgins" television and online advertising campaign might seem creative and whimsical, but as an indigenous person I find it deeply problematic. The campaign involves Burger King representatives providing ...
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USA: Native American Heritage Day
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, culture, society, rights, freedoms, government, ethics, GoodNews )

Kat
- 10 hours ago - globalvoicesonline.org
A new National Native American National Heritage day is being celebrated in the United States on November 27, the day after most people there celebrated Thanksgiving. The new national holiday is the culmination of an annual National Native American ....
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UPDATE: Church Apology to Tribe - "We Consumed Your Resources, Dehumanized Your People and Disregarded Your Culture."
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, religion, culture, society, rights, ethics, news, freedoms )

Kat
- 20 hours ago - buffalopost.net
NEW YORK (AP) - Members of one of America's oldest Protestant churches officially apologized Friday - for the first time - for massacring and displacing Native Americans 400 years ago. "We consumed your resources, dehumanized your people and dis....
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The Sand Creek Massacre: Documentary Film Project
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, Arts and Entertainment, Films, culture, society, ethics, interesting, politics, rights, government, freedoms )

Kat
- 23 hours ago - sandcreekmassacre.net
"On November 29, 1864, 700 soldiers of the Colorado 1st and 3rd Cavalries slaughtered, mutilated, raped, and murdered over 400 Cheyenne and Arapaho children, women, elders, and disabled. Originally this act was called "The Battle of Sand Creek." ...
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Montoliu: Celebrating 'Un-Thanksgiving Day'
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, AIM, culture, society, rights, freedoms, ethics, news, interesting, politics, activists )

Kat
- 1 day ago - lakeconews.com
Every November since 1975, Indian people have gathered on Alcatraz Island, in the San Francisco Bay, on what they call "Un-Thanksgiving Day," to honor the occupation and those who participated and still fight for Indian rights today. This year was the...
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2010 Native American $1 Dollar Design Unveiled
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, Money, culture, society, interesting )

Kat
- 1 day ago - coinnews.net
As dictated by the Native American $1 Coin Act (Public Law 110-82), the reverse of these coins feature a different reverse design annually that contain "images celebrating the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans
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Native American Nonprofit Receives $800,000 Affordable Housing Award
Society & Culture  (tags: GoodNews, Native Americans, housing, government )

Lone
- 2 days ago - ukiahdailyjournal.com
Native American nonprofit receives $800,000 affordable housing award The Daily Journal A Ukiah-based non-profit housing developer has experienced two landmark achievements during 2009 after years of struggling to gain certification from the State of
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Breakfast Gives Thanks to the First People of Seattle
Society & Culture  (tags: giving thanks, interesting, Native Americans, GoodNews )

Lone
- 2 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Chef Kerry Lee Holifield piles china plates high with turkey, homemade stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, yams, mixed peas and corn, and fry bread, smoking hot out of the fryer.
5 comments
Genocidal Results of the Failed American Indian Policies of the United States Government:   video
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, Lakota Indians, Pine Ridge Resevation, Charity, culture, society, children, ethics, humans, government, politics, rights )

Kat
- 3 days ago - youtube.com
The U.S. Campaign to solve the "Indian problem" (they have the land and the whites want it) continues today! Through the intentionally inept policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and various ......
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Path of the Leader
Society & Culture  (tags: Native Americans, veterans, celebration, culture )

Lone
- 3 days ago - kingsbayperiscope.com
The skies cleared and temperatures rose Thursday afternoon for a special celebration, the National Native American Heritage Month Celebration Program, in front of Naval Submarine
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Obama Should Give Nation's Apology to Native Peoples
Society & Culture  (tags: culture, President Obama, apology, Native Americans )

Lone
- 3 days ago - lansingstatejournal.com
President Obama recently signed a proclamation making November Native American Heritage Month. Addressing some 500 leaders from federally recognized Native American tribes, he committed the United States to fulfilling its trust responsibilities and calle
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Decyphering the Navajo Code
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, Navajo Code Talkers, wwii, culture, society, government, americans, interesting )

Kat
- 3 days ago - unlvrebelyell.com
One of the few Navajo code talkers employed during World War II received a warm welcome from students Nov. 19 when he and other veterans spoke at a lecture at the Student Union, hosted in honor of Native American Heritage month. The lecture began ...
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A Day To Honor Native Americans
Society & Culture  (tags: Native Americans, honor, american heritage day )

Lone
- 3 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
This Friday, November 27, we celebrate the second ever national Native American Heritage Day, to honor the original native residents of this great land of ours
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2010 Native American $1 Dollar Design Unveiled
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The Sand Creek Massacre: Documentary Film Project
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UPDATE: Church Apology to Tribe - "We Consumed Your Resources, Dehumanized Your People and Disregarded Your Culture."
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USA: Native American Heritage Day
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Montoliu: Celebrating 'Un-Thanksgiving Day'
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Whopper Commercial Mocks Natives
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No Cause to Fear
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